The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEWhy don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
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Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.
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General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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Witness, eternal God! Oh, witness that, from this hour, I will do what one man can to drive out this curse of slavery from my land!
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It is no merit in the sorrowful that they weep, or to the oppressed and smothering that they gasp and struggle, not to me, that I must speak for the oppressed – who cannot speak for themselves.
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My vocation to preach on paper.
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Intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.
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Of course, in a novel, people’s hearts break, and they die and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us.
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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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There are griefs which grow with years.
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I make no manner of doubt that you threw a very diamond of truth at me, though you see it hit me so directly in the face that it wasn’t exactly appreciated, at first.
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All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
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It lies around us like a cloud- A world we do not see; Yet the sweet closing of an eye May bring us there to be.
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Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
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A woman’s health is her capital.
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